Invaders from Mars is a 1953 independently made American SuperCinecolor science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke. It was produced by Edward L. Alperson Jr and was distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
Awakened during a thunderstorm, youngster David MacLean witnesses a brightly lit flying saucer disappear underground in the large sand pit behind his home. When his father investigates, he returns a changed man; soon David's mother, a young neighbour girl, and others, begin to act in the same way. Begging the police for help, David's panicked story is heard by Dr Pat Blake, who takes him to astronomer Dr Stuart Kelston. David soon convinces Kelston, who comes to believe that this is an invading vanguard from Mars.